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Caitlin MacNeal

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Caitlin MacNeal is a News Writer based in Washington, D.C. Before joining TPM, Caitlin interned and wrote for the Huffington Post, the Sunlight Foundation and Slate. She is a graduate of Georgetown University.

O'Reilly, who questioned the prisoner swap that brought Bergdahl back to the U.S. after he was held by the Taliban for five years, warned viewers that the five Taliban members released will soon be "free to return to the Afghan battlefield and free to kill Americans if they can."

After Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) sent a letter to governors telling them not to comply with new climate change rules from the Environmental Protection agency, Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin (D) responded on Wednesday with a short letter calling out McConnell's climate change denial.

"I disagree. Climate change is real. It’s a threat to humanity. We should be working harder to address it, not rolling back efforts to do so," Shumlin wrote, according to a copy of the letter obtained by the Huffington Post. "I fully support the Environmental Protection Agency’s plan."

Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said on Tuesday that he did not receive information from Israel after the country allegedly spied on the Iran nuclear talks, and joked that he "kind of felt left out."

"I was a little surprised at the tone," Corker said in response to the Wall Street Journal report that Israel shared confidential information from the negotiations with U.S. lawmakers, according to The Hill. "Actually, one of my reactions was 'Why haven’t they been coming up here sharing information with me?'"

Fox News host Megyn Kelly on Tuesday night grilled Sen. Ted Cruz (R) on his record in the Senate now that he has officially launched his presidential campaign.

"On your time in the Senate — this is what some of your critics point to — they say, yes you led the fight on certain issues, but what have you actually accomplished?" Kelly asked Cruz on "The Kelly File."

A Republican lawmaker in Arkansas introduced a bill this month that would create a "contraceptive incentive" for unmarried women on Medicaid who need time to "think about their life decisions that are affecting us as taxpayers," according to a report from RH Reality Check.

State Rep. Kim Hammer's (R) bill would allow Medicaid to reimburse single women with one child for a "surgically implanted contraceptive device," such as an intrauterine device, or other form of birth control that would remain effective for five years.